News tagged with sleep hygiene
Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...
Excessive gaming associated with poor sleep hygiene and increased sleepiness
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Computer/console gamers who play for more than seven hours a week and who identify their gaming as an addiction sleep less during the weekdays and experience greater sleepiness than casual or non-gamers, according ...
7 solutions for sleepless situations
May 22, 2009 |
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Seven solutions for sleepless situations.
Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Why Women Struggle with Sleep Problems
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Good sleep equals good health, says Raul Noriega, manager of the Comprehensive Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Center at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Yet more than half of women report problems with insomnia. ...
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Meditation may be an effective treatment for insomnia
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Meditation may be an effective behavioral intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to a research abstract that will be presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies
REM sleep associated with overweight in children and adolescents
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Short sleep time is associated with overweight in children and adolescents, a core aspect of which may be attributed to reduced REM sleep, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Thursday at SLEEP 2008, ...
Cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective treatment for chronic insomnia
Jun 09, 2009 |
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A majority of people experiencing chronic insomnia can experience a normalization of sleep parameters through the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), according to a research abstract that will be presented ...
Study finds behavioral link between insomnia and tension-type headaches
Feb 15, 2009 |
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A study in the Feb. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the use of sleep or napping to relieve chronic pain caused by tension-type headaches could have the unwanted effect of decreasing the homeos ...
Good hygiene goes a long way toward keeping pets, people healthy
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People may not be the only ones susceptible to the H1N1 virus this year - family pets also can fall victim to the influenza.
A single subjective question can be an effective sleepiness screening tool
Apr 15, 2008 |
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A single subjective (SS) question may be an effective screening tool for excessive daytime sleepiness, according to a study published in the April 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM).
Less sleep, more TV leads to overweight infants and toddlers
Apr 07, 2008 |
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Infants and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day are twice as likely to become overweight by age 3 than children who sleep longer. In addition, high levels of television viewing combined with less sleep elevates the ...
Online cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in treating chronic insomnia
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A study in the June 1 issue of the journal Sleep demonstrates that online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for chronic insomnia significantly improves insomnia severity, daytime fatigue, and sleep quality. Online treatm ...
Study shows that elderly women sleep better than they think, men sleep worse
Oct 01, 2009 |
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A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer.
Researchers reverse the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. ...
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